Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2524-1)

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : eCryptfs vulnerability (USN-2524-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2524-1 advisory. Sylvain Pelissier discovered that eCryptfs did not generate a random salt when encrypting the mount passphrase with the login password. An attacker could use this...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2515-2)

USN-2515-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. There was an unrelated regression in the use of the virtual counter CNTVCT on arm64 architectures. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the...

USN-2516-3: Linux kernel vulnerabilities regression

USN-2516-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, and the fix in USN-2516-2 was incomplete. There was an unrelated regression in the use of the virtual counter CNTVCT on arm64 architectures. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: A flaw w...

USN-2515-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities regression

USN-2515-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. There was an unrelated regression in the use of the virtual counter CNTVCT on arm64 architectures. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual...

CVE-2014-9683

Off-by-one error in the ecryptfsdecodefromfilename function in fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and system crash or possibly gain privileges via a crafted filename...

CVE-2014-9683

Off-by-one error in the ecryptfsdecodefromfilename function in fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and system crash or possibly gain privileges via a crafted filename...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9683

Off-by-one error in the ecryptfsdecodefromfilename function in fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and system crash or possibly gain privileges via a crafted filename...

Buffer overflow

Off-by-one error in the ecryptfsdecodefromfilename function in fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and system crash or possibly gain privileges via a crafted filename...

CVE-2014-9683

Off-by-one error in the ecryptfsdecodefromfilename function in fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and system crash or possibly gain privileges via a crafted filename...

CVE-2014-9683

CVE-2014-9683 describes an off-by-one error in the Linux kernel’s eCryptfs path: ecryptfs_decode_from_filename in fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c (pre-3.18.2). A crafted filename can cause a buffer overflow, leading to a denial of service and, potentially, local privilege escalation. The vulnerability is lo...

CVE-2014-9683

Off-by-one error in the ecryptfsdecodefromfilename function in fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and system crash or possibly gain privileges via a crafted filename...

USN-2516-2: Linux kernel vulnerability regression

USN-2516-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. There was an unrelated regression in the use of the virtual counter CNTVCT on arm64 architectures. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2515-1)

A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service of the guest OS crash or potentially gain privileges on the guest OS...

Ubuntu 14.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2518-1)

A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service of the guest OS crash or potentially gain privileges on the guest OS...

USN-2518-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service of the guest OS crash or potentially gain privileges on the guest OS...

USN-2517-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service of the guest OS crash or potentially gain privileges on the guest OS...

USN-2516-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service of the guest OS crash or potentially gain privileges on the guest OS...

USN-2515-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service of the guest OS crash or potentially gain privileges on the guest OS...

Debian DSA-3170-1 : linux - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service, information leaks or privilege escalation. - CVE-2013-7421 / CVE-2014-9644 It was discovered that the Crypto API allowed unprivileged users to load arbitrary kernel modules. A local user can use...